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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Fear Her

Doctor Who:

Fear Her

By Mathew
Graham

“A storm’s
approaching.”

The Doctor
and Rose appear in a neighborhood were kids have been disappearing. Kids are
vanishing without a trace and no evidence of anyone doing it.Al the time Chloe Webber is sitting in her
room drawing pictures of the missing kids and never leaving her room.It is also the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony
in London and everyone is getting excited for the games to begin.The Doctor believes it is something alien
that is taking the kids and he can feel a presence of something at the spot
where the kids have vanished.

The Doctor
eventually gets snatched up also and Rose discovers that when Chloe Webber
draws you on a piece of paper you disappear.It is up to Rose to save the children and The Doctor from being crayon
images and to save the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics before the whole
world vanishes.

When this
story was announced I was looking forward to it because it was written by Life
on Mars creator Mathew Graham.Unfortunately it was a big letdown.I was expecting something good something edgy that we were used to
seeing on Life on Mars and later on Ashes to Ashes.Instead what we got was a light hearted romp
centered on the 2012 Olympics.Well not
too light hearted as it also centered on child abuse by Chloe’s dad which was
the central psychic creature towards the end that was causing terror.The concept is not that bad as we see a girl
given powers by an alien being in which she can imprison people in her
drawings.I just don’t think the
execution was all that great and the story did suffer from silliness and a lot
of the plot was not explained all that well.Fear Her just isn’t a strong story and the fact that this was the
replacement for the Steven Fry story was probably hurt by being rushed into
production and could have been better if they planned it out better.The concept is not bad it just fails because
of the weakness of the story and the silliness at the end.

Rose had a
good part to play in Fear Her and in fact she saves the day.This is really refreshing as she hasn’t been
written well this season.In fact you
get glimpses of her season one self that was more get things done and the non
stupid Rose that was present in series one.It was good to see her taking center stage and not being the jealous and
spiteful girl who is crushing on the Doctor.The ending was pretty hoaky even for Doctor Who.You all know it.Yes that right the lighting of the Olympic
torch by The Doctor.That was just to
corny even for Doctor Who.

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